This was the final stop on a London Walks dedicated to the life of Whistler - it was terrific. Fun fact - every year the Chelsea Arts Club does a procession from their HQ to this statue, to pay honour to the great painter who, from more or less this very spot, painted his fantastic Nocturne in Black and Gold.

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By jeff benjamin

A dapper Whistler, sketchbook at hand, surveying a stretch of the Thames towards Cremorne Gardens. Hereabouts very much his purlieu and the inspiration for his evocative “Nocturne” paintings that caused such a rumpus and kerfuffle.
Not much of interest over this prospect nowadays, his view upstream unlikely to raise more than a dismissive eyebrow.